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“I see my way as birds their trackless way.
I shall arrive,—what time, what circuit first,
I ask not; but unless God send his hail
Or blinding fire-balls, sleet or stifling snow,
In some time, his good time, I shall arrive:
He guides me and the bird. In his good time.”

Robert Browning Paracelsus

Part 1.
Paracelsus (1835)

God , Way , Bird , Time

“God made all the creatures, and gave them our love and our fear,
To give sign we and they are his children, one family here.”

Robert Browning

"Saul", vi.
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (1845)

Love , God , Children , Fear

“For I say this is death and the sole death,—
When a man's loss comes to him from his gain,
Darkness from light, from knowledge ignorance,
And lack of love from love made manifest.”

Robert Browning

A Death in the Desert (1864)

Love , Death , Knowledge , Light

“over zealous in the feat
And stumbling on a peril unaware.
Was captive, "trammelled in his proper snare,"
They phrase it, "taken by his own intrigue"”

Robert Browning book Sordello

Book the First
Sordello (1840)

“Kiss me as if you made believe
You were not sure, this eve,
How my face, your flower, had pursed
It's petals up.”

Robert Browning

"In a Gondola", line 49 (1842).

Flowers , Kiss

“How he lies in his rights of a man!
Death has done all death can.
And absorbed in the new life he leads,
He recks not, he heeds
Nor his wrong nor my vengeance; both strike
On his senses alike,
And are lost in the solemn and strange
Surprise of the change.”

Robert Browning After

After.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Life , Death , Sense , Change

“The hill-cat boasts some cunning of her own,
Some stealthy tricks to better beasts unknown
That quick with prey enough her hunger blunts
And feeds her fat while gaunt the lion hunts.”

Robert Browning book Sordello

Book the First
Sordello (1840)

Hunger , Cats

“Progress, man’s distinctive mark alone,
Not God’s, and not the beasts’: God is, they are,
Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.”

Robert Browning Men and Women

"De Gustibus", line 586.
Men and Women (1855)
Variant: Progress, man’s distinctive mark alone,
Not God’s, and not the beasts’: God is, they are,
Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.

God , Hope

“Never the time and the place
And the loved one all together!”

Robert Browning

"Never the Time and the Place" (1883).

Love , Time

“How good is man's life, the mere living!
How fit to employ
All the heart and the soul and the senses
Forever in joy!”

Robert Browning

"Saul", ix.
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (1845)

Life , Soul , Sense , Heart

“What I aspired to be,
And was not, comforts me.”

Robert Browning Rabbi ben Ezra

Rabbi Ben Ezra.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over,
Lest you should think he never could recapture
The first fine careless rapture!”

Robert Browning

"Home-Thoughts, from Abroad", line 14.
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (1845)

Thinking , Singing

“This could but have happened once,—
And we missed it, lost it forever.”

Robert Browning

Youth and Art, xvii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Just my vengeance complete,
The man sprang to his feet,
Stood erect, caught at God's skirts, and prayed!
So, I was afraid!”

Robert Browning

Instans Tyrannus, vii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

God

“Round and round, like a dance of snow
In a dazzling drift, as its guardians, go
Floating the women faded for ages,
Sculptured in stone on the poet's pages.”

Robert Browning

Women and Roses.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Women , Age , Dance

“Womanliness means only motherhood;
All love begins and ends there.”

Robert Browning

The Inn Album (1875).

Love

“Thou, heaven's consummate cup, what needst thou with earth's wheel?
But I need, now as then,
Thee, God, who mouldest men.”

Robert Browning Rabbi ben Ezra

Source: Dramatis Personae (1864), Rabbi Ben Ezra, Line 180.

Men , God

“Then welcome each rebuff
That turns earth's smoothness rough,
Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go!
Be our joys three-parts pain!
Strive, and hold cheap the strain;
Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!”

Robert Browning Rabbi ben Ezra

Rabbi Ben Ezra.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Pain , Learning , Joy , Parting

“God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures
Boasts two soul-sides,—one to face the world with,
One to show a woman when he loves her!”

Robert Browning

Stanza xvii.
One Word More (1855)

Love , God , World , Soul

“The curious crime, the fine
Felicity and flower of wickedness.”

Robert Browning The Ring and the Book

Book X: The Pope, line 590.
The Ring and the Book (1868-69)

Flowers